Antique Shops - Antique Shop Directory

Swinke antique shop directory lists antique shops with websites that sell or provide information about antiques. Acceptance into Swinke is based solely on the quality of the antique website. If you submit an antique shop to Swinke, you can rest assured that it will be listed among the best antique shops on the internet. Please review all the categories and sub-categories prior to your submission to make sure that this is the appropriate one. If you can not find the correct category, please recommend it to us and we will add it.

Antique shops are retail stores that sell antiques to antique collectors and consumers. Antiques shops are located throughout many communities. You can also buy antiques online. An online antique shop can also be found in an internet antique shopping mall. As a result of the expanded access that the internet provides, individuals and shops sell antiques in online marketplaces, such as Ebay.

An antique shop usually gets their antiques from auctions, bankruptcy liquidations, estate sales, flea markets and garage sales. Many products pass through many antique dealers before arriving to the shop that will sell it. By their nature, shops sell unique items. The quality of these items may vary from very low to extremely high. Obviously the higher the quality of the antique, the more expensive they will be. Usually, shops will be clustered together in select locations. This allows shoppers to browse and buy from a larger selection. Since most items are one-of-a-kind, the shops do not consider each other as competition and therefore work together to attract shoppers.

Many shops and dealers specialize in particular segments of the market, such as antique furniture or antique jewelry. This makes them experts on those items and therefore can offer shopping information that will benefit the consumer and collector.